Summary

In October 2020, Samuel Paty, a French teacher, was murdered following a false accusation by a 13-year-old student who claimed he’d shown anti-Muslim bias. The girl had made up the story to cover the fact she had been suspended from school for bad behaviour.

In reality, Paty’s lesson on free speech included optional viewing of Charlie Hebdo cartoons, but he hadn’t excluded anyone. The student’s story triggered a social media campaign led by her father, who, along with others, is now on trial for inciting hatred and connections to Paty’s attacker, an 18-year-old radicalized Chechen.

The school will be named the Samuel Paty School from next year.

  • @SmilingSolaris
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    -316 days ago

    Of course it’s not a one off instance. It’s the 2nd biggest religion in the world. There’s a lot of people who identify as Muslim. Just because some of them fall to extremism and commit atrocities does not damn the entire faith. If that’s the case then declare your faith or lack of it and I will fill an unlimited count of its crimes.

    There’s a difference between a religion having an extremism problem, such as Islam and a religion being inherently extremist. You ever consider why Islam has an extremism problem now in modern day and not say, the Islamic golden age?

    Bigoted and ignorant. As much as the extremists you hate. Your just not violent. Yet.

    • @[email protected]
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      016 days ago

      I’m not religious. Have at it.

      There’s a difference between a religion having an extremism problem, such as Islam and a religion being inherently extremist.

      There’s a saying about bad apples you might’ve heard. Especially true if there’s loads of those bad apples.

      Bigoted and ignorant. As much as the extremists you hate. Your just not violent. Yet.

      “You’re almost as bad as the fucked up murderous extremists, apart from being murderous.”

      I guess calling them out is almost as bad lmao.